Lolo

An early morning electrical fire at a modular home in Lolo sent crews from Missoula Rural and Missoula City fire departments to Lakeside Drive, where they found smoke coming from under the manufactured home.

Montana loggers fed up with an unsteady paycheck and American red tape will soon have an opportunity to put saw blades to work in Siberia, as long as they're willing to be monitored by a reality TV crew.

At approximately 2:30 a.m. Monday, September 30, a Missoula area woman suspected of driving drunk lost control of her car in a Lolo neighborhood and crashed into a home.

Update 1 p.m. 9/17- Though the Miller Creek fire is still burning, wet weather and cold temperatures today have helped firefighters make quick work of the blaze.

At approximately 3 p.m. on Monday afternoon, Sept. 9, a turquoise colored 4x4 Chevrolet truck was northbound on Highway 93, approximately three miles south of Lolo near Trader Brothers, when the driver lost control of the vehicle and rolled multiple times before coming to a stop in the barrow pit - the pit area between the highway and the railroad tracks.

The basketball court and baseball fields at the Lolo schools were filled with firefighters and firefighting tools , August 29. Lolo Middle School Principal Shawna Kientz said it was meaningful to see the children visiting with the firefighters that had helped save their school from the Lolo Creek Complex.

Currently, there are more than 1,200 homes being threatened by the Lolo Creek Complex fires. All day today, Wednesday, August 21, sheriff’s deputies were handing out protection warning notices to those living north of Highway 12 and west of Highway 93.

The Lolo Complex Fire was originally two low-priority fires that did not threaten structures. However, in the past 40 hours, hot weather and winds have fanned the fires into an official state of emergency. Now, the West Fork II fire and the original School House Fire are considered one giant threat as they burn on both sides of Highway 12.

UPDATE 4:15 p.m. Monday, August 19 Mandatory evacuations are in effect in the Bear Creek area as two fires, the School House and the West Fork 2, are combining to burn hundreds of acres and send smoke billowing up over Blue Mountain raining ash on homes in Lolo and into Missoula. Missoula County Sheriff's Office Public Information Officer paige Pavalone said at about 4 p.m. Monday, that deputies w

Missoula County sheriff's officials are looking for information about a robbery that occurred in Lolo at about midnight on Tuesday, August 6.